The Coalition’s support has slumped to its lowest level on record, with a Newspoll showing the Opposition’s primary vote collapsing to just 27 per cent.
Labor has extended its two-party-preferred lead to 58–42, while Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s net approval rating has fallen to minus 17.
On Monday afternoon’s episode of The Briefing, we are joined by pollster Tony Barry, who says the Liberal Party can be saved, but its members need to return to core values or will continue to lose millions of young voters in the process.
Barry revealed that One Nation has been the biggest beneficiary of Coalition infighting, lifting its primary vote to 10 per cent.
He said the data revealed the Coalition’s dire position among younger Australians. “Amongst male Gen Z, they had 22 per cent primary. But that is just simply not even vaguely competitive,” he said.
Barry said that the Coalition was losing touch with voters.
“In recent times the coalition has become very tactical and people don’t really know what they stand for, understand what their values are and so that’s why we’re seeing some of these sort of blowouts happening in the vote right now,” he said.
“To be relevant again with that voter cohort, [they need} to get back to its legacy strengths, which is economic management.”
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